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AOL faces threat from AT&T
News AT&T claims that would give a quarter of American homes access to superfast internet connections via AT&T's AtHome service. AT&T has made a $54 billion bid to buy cable-television company MediaOne in an attempt to promote cable delivery of internet...
[April 27, 1999, 12:36]
Amazon Web Services: 'Ship us your drives'
News In an Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog post, the team noted that "hard drives are getting bigger more rapidly than internet connections are getting faster", and said a service such as Import/Export had been frequently requested by customers who...
[May 22, 2009, 13:08]
Google JotSpot exposes user data, says researcher
News A researcher has found that Google's JotSpot service — which allows users to collaborate on online documents — exposes user names and email addresses to anyone on the internet. However, the search giant said the problem is due to administrator...
[October 31, 2008, 10:32]
iPass lands roaming deal with The Cloud
News Network access provider iPass has landed a roaming deal with The Cloud. The agreement will allow iPass customers to access the Internet through The Cloud's 6,000 European Wi-Fi hot spots, most of which are in the UK.iPass allows businesses and...
[April 12, 2006, 13:55]
Skype tries to regain business users' trust
News To use it you need a lot of other components that we have no control over — a PC, other software, network provider and so on. Customers] are not saying they would love to call a VoIP provider on a different network," he said.
[December 12, 2007, 7:41]
T-Mobile bans VoIP from super-3G service
Talkback Gee, shouldn't you switch to a provider with a flat-fee high Internet deal then that does support VoIP and SIP? Ah. So no SIP on that 3G network then? OK, one might take that as a market signal that perhaps more traditional rates are overrated but...
[July 25, 2006, 0:09]
Cisco buys into remote-access company
News Because the files are synchronised from the PC to SoonR's servers, the service works even when a PC is switched off. SoonR allows its users to access, share or backup files on their desktop computers from their phones or other internet-enabled...
[January 11, 2008, 11:14]
The Cloud slashes Wi-Fi prices
News Sarin told ZDNet UK that the feedback received from test marketing pilots had shown customers were loath to stick with a service that charged exorbitant fees through vouchers or paying by the minute. Wi-Fi network operator The Cloud announced a new...
[May 2, 2006, 17:10]
Skype finds favour with enterprise
News Skype eventually plans to sell advertising on the service, letting companies pay to display their details when customers search on a specific keyword — the same model used by existing internet search giants like Google and Yahoo.
[July 27, 2007, 8:38]
Concern grows about Bulldog's broadband service
Talkback I wonder how can such a provider run so smothly in UK! I was argueing with their technical agents on a simple thing that even internet novice knows but she doesn't and the next fella repeated the same!
[March 25, 2006, 9:32]
Lycos to buy personal home page firm Tripod
News MSFT) acquired free e-mail provider HotMail Corp.in a deal estimated at between $300 million and $400 million. The combination will make Lycos the Web's fifth most visited publisher, reaching nearly one-quarter of all Internet users.
[February 3, 1998, 16:04]
Business Objects plugs in to Eclipse
News One of the reasons we've chosen to go with the Eclipse platform, rather than any of the other open source types," she said, "is that [Eclipse] actually has a model where vendors can sell value-added products into it, but still provide the service...
[November 7, 2005, 9:05]
Skype calls on FCC to open network access
News Some have even included specific terms in their service contracts that prevent customers from downloading and using software from Skype on their networks. The company has created software that allows people to make free phone calls across the...
[February 23, 2007, 8:36]
Hotmail clamps down on spam
News Hotmail users accessing the service via dial-up accounts were particularly angered by the wasted time and money spent ploughing through a cluttered inbox deleting spam and trying to spot the unsolicited mail from the genuine correspondences.
[September 20, 2002, 15:56]
MS to buy Hotmail free e-mail service
News The world's largest ISV will gain access to nine million Hotmail subscribers and plans to extensively promote Hotmail via its Microsoft Network service. Yahoo! recently bought two-year-old Hotmail's smaller rival Four11 for $92 million but...
[January 5, 1998, 11:07]
MSN sees Hotmail helping make Office for Net
News With the recent deal with [HotBot search engine technology provider] Inktomi to offer search from MSN we provided the former, and now we cover the latter," said Oliver Roll, group marketing manager at MSN UK.
[January 5, 1998, 15:31]
Premiere Service Provider Increases Value Added Revenue and Enhances Broadband Experience by Bundling D-Link Home Networking Solutions
White Papers Broadband National's core business of broadband service installation requires the deployment of DSL and cable customer premise equipment. D-Link was able to offer Broadband National extensive experience in working with service providers to deploy...
[April 3, 2009, 1:22]
The danger in Skype's plans
News Like the iPod, free phone service Skype is creating a coattail economy as hungry developers rush to cash in on its popularity. Now Skype is hoping to take the service even further by recruiting third-party developers to build add-on programs that...
[April 4, 2005, 16:55]
Managed Hosting Service Provider Improves Scalability and Availability of Customer Solutions Using Application Center 2000
White Papers Digex is a leading provider of managed Web and application hosting services, meeting the needs of customers who rely on the Internet as a critical business tool. As a premier provider of managed hosting services, Digex is continually evaluating new...
[December 6, 2008, 0:23]
Nokia to buy Navteq
News The company also launched a navigation service that allows users to download maps. Location-based services are "one of the cornerstones of Nokia's internet services strategy," Nokia chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in a statement.
[October 2, 2007, 8:34]
